United States Fourth Circuit

Tampering with a consumer product with reckless disregard for and extreme indifference to the risk of human death or injury, in violation of 18 USC 1365(a), is a crime of violence for purposes of the Federal Bureau of Prisons drug treatment early release program.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/05/2001
• Decided 08/01/2001
• Published 08/01/2001

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS, MICHAEL, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Joseph Anthony Brossart, Legal Research and Writing Specialist, Charleston, WV, for Appellant. Michael Lee Keller, Assistant United States Attorney, Charleston, WV, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Mary Lou Newberger, Acting Federal Public Defender, George H. Lancaster, Jr., Assistant Federal Public Defender, Charleston, WV, for Appellant.  Rebecca A. Betts, United States Attorney, Charleston, WV, for Appellee.